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Brayshaw Family
of Yorkshire,England to Victoria, Australia.


This is a brief history of the first generation
of the Brayshaw family from Yorkshire,in England to Victoria, Australia.


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Joseph Brayshaw, born c 1820 at Yorkshire,
son of William Brayshaw and Elizabeth Stead

Joseph Brayshaw was married twice:
1. Mary Reynolds
2. Hannah Ann Journeaux. May 1865 [cert no located]

No marriage has been located for Joseph's first wife, nor subsequent death certificate, though one son was born here in Victoria:-

Joseph Brayshaw,born 1861, Vict. died 1861. Bullarook


- other children of this marriage:
Elizabeth Brayshaw
Jane Brayshaw.

Hannah An Journeaux, [b 1844, co Cork], and Joseph where supposedly married in May 1865, but no marriage record has been located for them in Victoria as stated on certificates.

Brayshaw children - family 2.:

Mary Ann born 1866 Ballarat.m Charles F Williams
Louisa b 1869 Ballarat. married 1891 Fred Lawson
James William b 1871 Ballt. m 1896 to Mary James
John Richmon b 1873 Ballt, m 1904 to Maud Jurey
Amelia b 1875 Ballt, died 1897 .
Ann Journeaux b 1877 Ballt, m James Goery in 1905
Mary Journeaux b 1879 Ballt, m Peter Gross in 1906
George Alfred b 1882, married 1902 to Ethel Roylette
Alice Victoria b 1884 Ballt,
David b 1887 Ballt, died in 1887.

Joseph Brayshaw arrived in Victoria aboard the "Shooting Star" in 1858 with his brother David Brayshaw , who accompanied his wife,Ellen Reynolds, and his two children.
The "Shooting Star" was a vessell of some 1460 tons, owned by James Baines and Co, and was a part of the "Black Ball" line of British and Australian CLipper packets.
The vessell had left Liverpool on the 6th of Nov 1857, under the Captaincy of Master William Alcock. There were 285 passengers aboard her, and she was licensed to carry 304. The journey took 140 days to complete, with the vessell arriving Port Phillip on the 5th Feb 1858.
Oral family history suggests that Joseph was brought out from England to open up the Ballarat "New" Cemetery..perhaps he was a stone mason or similar.He did work as a gardner in his later life.

David Brayshaw, [brother of Joseph] was born c 1822, and arrived in 1849 in Victoria aboard the "Saxon". He was a brickmaker by trade.
David married Ellen Reynolds in Victoria in 1849, and they had children:
William, born 1850, Geelong.
David, born 1852, Geelong.
John, born c 1855 - England
Thomas born c 1856 - England
Pauline, born aboard the "Shooting Star: 15th Jan 1858, on route to Melbourne.
Mark, born Ashby, Geelong, in 1860.

Joseph Brayshaw died in 1895, at Ballarat and is buried there in the old cemetery, whilst his wife, Hannah Journeaux, died in 1912, and is buried in the Ballarat New Cemetery.